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I’ve been operating as a Product Owner for the last 4 months. I still have a lot to learn in this role, and this post is meant to share a recent experience to help me collect my thoughts and give readers some insight into my thoughts. My product is a web portal which allows customers …

The Agile Manifesto was created in 2001 as a philosophy for improving the way software is developed. It was created by 17 authors and has become wildly popular in the software development eco-system. If you’ve heard of Scrum or Kanban, those are implementations of Agile. The authors also agreed on 12 principles. This article will …

Around a month ago, I attended a full week of PMP training in my office. It was fantastic. It gave me a whole lot of new tools for my toolbox. It helped me identify a number of holes in my game and gave me some tools to get things back on track. One tool I …

The effectiveness of our retrospective meetings had plateaued for the last couple of sprints, but despite that I couldn’t believe for more than a second that we had nothing else to try in order to grow. We had been running with Agile for the last 9 months, but we weren’t coming up with many ideas to try and …

Recently, with little notice, I had to step back from work for a few days (with a 3 day flu on the tail end of it). This occurred from day 4 through day 8 of a 10 day sprint. The whole time I was gone, I was periodically checking my emails to see if everything was ok. …